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Language use in education and primary schooling attainment: evidence from a natural experiment in Ethiopia

Ramachandran, Rajesh - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2012

The extensive use of foreign languages in schooling might have an important role to play in the poor educational outcomes observed on the African continent. Exploiting the language policy change of 1994 in Ethiopia as a natural experiment, we estimate the effects of provision of mother tongue...

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Educational Spillovers at the Firm Level: Who Benefits from Whom?

Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Rupietta, Christian; Tuor … - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2011

This paper examines spillover effects from education at the firm level, separating the effects for different levels and types of education and allowing for a curvilinear relationship. Modeling a Cobb-Douglas production function, we show that wages of tertiary-educated workers depend positively...

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Neighborhood effects and parental involvement in the intergenerational transmission of education

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2010

We analyze the intergenerational transmission of education focusing on the interplay between family and neighborhood effects. We develop a theoretical model suggesting that both neighborhood quality and parental effort are of importance for the education attained by children. This model proposes...

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Intelligence, Human Capital, and Economic Growth: A Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) Approach

Jones, Garett; Schneider, W. Joel - EconWPA - 2005

Human capital plays an important role in the theory of economic growth, but it has been difficult to measure this abstract concept. We survey the psychological literature on cross-cultural IQ tests, and conclude that modern intelligence tests are well-suited for measuring an important form of a...

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The Role of Endogenous Skill Choice in an Aging Economy

Jaag, Christian - EconWPA - 2005

This chapter analyzes the effects of an aging population on individual skill choices and the production structure by means of a dynamic general equilibrium model with overlapping generations and probabilistic aging. The model allows for capital-skill complementarity, which strongly affects the...

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Why do educated mothers matter? A model of parental help

Canova, Luciano; Vaglio, Alessandro - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2011

This paper investigates the role performed by mothers in affecting their childrens’ performance at school. The article develops firstly a theoretical model in which household (parent - child pair) is treated as an individual, whose utility depends both on the performance at school of the...

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Returns to Education, Child Labor, & Schooling in India

Chamarbagwala, Rubiana - EconWPA - 2004

In an environment where children's time has an economic value and employment opportunities for educated workers are scarce, parental investments in their children's education may not be driven entirely by poverty and credit constraints. We offer evidence that children's participation in child...

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What is Left to Residual Claimants? The Empirics of Income Reported by Entrepreneurs and Workers

Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha - EconWPA - 2004

Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average income with all but undergraduate level of...

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High quality workplace training and innovation in highly developed countries

Rupietta, Christian; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2012

steadily revised training curricula. We expect that this additional source of knowledge leads to higher innovation in training … dependent variable innovativeness is operationalized with four different measures: general innovation, product innovation …, process innovation and patent applications. As explanatory variable we use regulated apprenticeship training programs with …

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